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  1. Alice Munro _ Friend of My Youth

    She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but *presumptuous*. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her -- was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?
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  2. Alice Munro _ Friend of My Youth

    Georgia took once a creative-writing course, and what the instructor told her was: Too many things. Too many things going on at the same time; also too many people. Think, he told her. What is the important thing? What do you want us to pay attention to? Think.Eventually she wrote a story that was about her grandfather killing chickens, and the instructor seemed to be pleased with it. Georgia herself thought that it was a fake. She made a long list of all the things that had been left out and handed it in as an appendix to the story. The instructor said that she expected too much, of herself and of the process, and that she was wearing him out.The course was not a total loss, because Georgia and the instructor ended up living together.
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  3. Alice Munro _ Friend of My Youth

    Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. {Averill often told herself stories-- the activity seemed to her as unavoidable as dreaming.} Her singing was a barrier set between the world in her head and the world outside, between her body and the onslaught of the stars.
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  4. Alice Munro _ Friend of My Youth

    People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
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